Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15

| - hOO OuC VI lliC 1cdSl tOISIUGIdUiODs
in the business.
Fowls will eat a great deal of gran
| ulated charcoal. As preventive of
disease it is invaluable.
The Crown Prince of Germany sells
| 1000 quarts of milk daily from his
| dairy farm near Berlin
A company of titled Frenchmen are
| raising Arabian horses on Lame
Johnny Creek, in Dakota.
The swine breeders of Iowa have
come to look upon white clover as an
| excellent summer pasturage Tor hogs.
Boiled potatoes, meat scraps, table
crumbs, ETC., serve a better purpose
| in the hen house titan in the swill bar
rel.
at least one poultry ration q day
in the morning-sho be soft food
ground grain mixed with water or
| milk.
If pure male is bred to mixed fe-
males the issue is toward the type of
the pure breed SO long as such male is
used.
Thousands of acres of land in Oneida
and Herkimer counties. New York.
were sold at auction at l cent an acre
recently.
A bill to prohibit tie coIoring of
oleomargarine yellow, IN imitation of
butter, was defeated in the Massachu-
sets Legislature.
A writer in the Maine Farmer call
caponlzing poultry 'sheartless prac-
tice," and wants anti-cruel5y societies
to have it stopped.
The market grower is liable to make
a great mistake who overlooks the
neighboring home market, trusting to
the large towns only.
At recent picking on an ostrich
farm in California fifty pounds of
feathers were obtained, worth S16O a
pound SIS, 900 for the pick.
The question of fireplace ornament
alton is settled in some country houses
by filling the open fire place with
shelves to hold bric-a-brac.
Sulphur and tobacco leaves burned
in the poultry house. the house being
closed perfectly tight, will clean out
the red lice, says contemporary.
Fruit to bring good prices nowadays
must be fair and large, while small,
interior fruit of any kind is not worth
the trouble of sending to market
Plants may by grown in compare
lively small pots if watered OCCASION
ally with weak solution of guano,
hens droppings, or sulphate of ammo
MIA.
Professor Stewart reports the feed
ing of 104 cows on an acre of corn in
the milk. and it gave them full feed
for four days, equal to 416days for one
COW.
There are over fifty poultry assoca-
tions in the United States that annu-
ally give exhibitions. They lave been
instrumental in greatly advancing the
poultry interests.
An entirely new insect. heretofore
unknown by entomologists, is devas-
tating the New York hop yards. The
insect works on the roots of the plant,
and resembles a beetle.
Coal ashes are not fit for the dust
box until the cinders have been sifted
out. A hen cannot throw coal cinGers
on her back. They are too heavy; be-
sides they hurt her feet.
Turkeys are great foragers, and will
gather their entire food from the fields
during the summer, at the same time
destroying myriads of bugs, grass hop
pers, worms, ETC., that prey upon the
crops.
Farm horses protected by thin blank
cts from flies in hot weather will keep
in good condition much more easily
than if exposed to the torment Of innu-
merable bites during all the hours OF
the long hot days.
Lands that are overstociSed not only
Yieid less food, but the animals pas
tured upon shem make Il less weld in
beef or milk than when the stock is in
proportion to the capacity OF the lands
for producing food.
There is considerable ground in the
garden that for several months of good
corn weather produces nothing but
weeds, whereas it could be made 10 at
ford feed Tor many pound of 35-cent
butter IN stipplementing the pastures.
Young lawns, after the first winter,
have more or less low places, where
unequal settlement has occurred, and
these want to be filed up until good,
even surfaces are produced, then re-
seed all gaps with fresh seed, and roll
with an l, S00-pound sectional roller
At present the great bulk of Cali
fornia fruit finds market in the East
aud in Europe. Europeans do not
amount to much as frat Gamers, and
Paris is glad to get canned apricols,
sweeter than the green fruit, and
canned peaches nearly as good as
fruit picked off the trees, for less
money than it costs at the French cap
ital for home grown fruit in the sea-
son. The English offer no competi-
ton, and are getting to love our
canned fruit so well that five times as
much as last year has been ordered
shipped.
Boad building and road repat61s